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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1911
Page
8
Madame Simone stars in The Whirlwind at Plymouth Charles Cherry with The Seven Sisters at Hollis and The Woodsman at Castle Square, plus continued attractions.
The Plymouth Theatre in Boston hosted Madame Simone in Bernstein's The Whirlwind and Henri Bernstein’s parlor melodrama. Simone’s powerful emotional range drew praise while Emmett Corrigan and Edwin Arden carried strong support turns. The crowd thanked a dramatic, thrilling season with high expectations for future premieres.
National Theatre crowds roar as Thomas Buck O'Brien of the Red Sox Quartet vows pennant and world championship glory for the Boston Americans. The program features Caroline Nichols Fadette Orchestra and a star billed bill with Neff Starr and the Telephone Girl sketch alongside Weymott Elliston Creighton brothers Vittoria and an Army Navy football film.
Advertisement touts Papes Cold Compound as three years of research costing over fifty thousand dollars with no quinine. It asserts a two hour dosing plan ends the grippe and severe colds, relieving headache fever sneezing stuffed nose and rheumatic pains, claiming a 25 cent package cures without side effects.
The Hollis Street Theatre opened with The Seven Sisters a four act domestic comedy adapted from Hungarian sources. The cast features Charles Cherry as Count Fern and Jean Murdoch as Mici with an ensemble including Mrs Adeline Stanhope-Wheatcroft Wilfred Draycott John B Hollis Reginald Mason Gaston Bell and others. The play weaves seven sisters marriage schemes in a lively Magyar setting with notable musical interludes.
Boston patrons flocked to the Park Theatre for a performance inspired by Wallingford tales. Hale Hamilton and William H. Boyd star as Wallingford and his confederate in a brisk comedy about confidence schemes and cross purposes that keeps the crowd laughing from start to finish.
Waldron's Casino presents a burlesque headlined by Bitty Arlington in A Trip to the Moon. Arlington and Ed Johnston lead a lively duo whose routines trigger loud laughter. The cast includes Joe Ward Frank Mackay Dick Smith Andy Leigh Bobby Morrow Jeanette Buckley Carrie Thomas Alice Clark Eleanor Cockran Millian Price Fay Tunis and more. The production features specialty acts by Arlington Johnston Strouse Buckley and De la Luna ballet with M Ferrari and Natalie.
The seventh week of The Blue Bird opens at the Shubert Theatre with Burford Hampden as Tylly Janet Parker as Mytyl and Bergline as the Fairy guiding a dream voyage past ground broken by Bread Water Fire and Night in Maeterlinck’s fantasy. Boston and New England audiences fill the house as the show nears its last performances this week and next with a Hale House benefit matinee this afternoon.
The Majestic Theatre encore of Everywoman last night drew a large audience as the modern morality drama follows a young woman with Youth, Beauty and Modesty on a quest for Love. Audiences stay engaged through the conflict until the final encounter with King Love the First.
The final week of Elsie Janis in The Slim Princess drew a full house at the Colonial Theatre. Critics praise her versatility and charm as she portrays a refined Oriental scene, supported by an unusually capable company. The Pink Lady follows as next week’s attraction with seat sales opening this morning.
Last evening at the Tremont Theatre closed the Boston run of Madame Sherry starring Lina Abarbanell in a seven week engagement. The audience praised the star’s talents and dancing amid warm applause. Ralph Hart returns next Monday to headline Doctor DeLuxe in a new lively musical comedy.
Ben Hur ends its successful Boston Theatre run this Saturday December 16 after six weeks. All remaining two weeks seats sold rapidly. Klaw and Erlanger’s largest production transfers to New Amsterdam in New York with Egwin Robins as Messala and Adelaide Nowak as Ilias. The Trail of the Tonesome Pine will follow with Charlotte Walker stars.
Crowds gathered at Austin and Stones Museum for the annual fat women convention. Thirteen roly-poly delegates from ten states and seven nationalities attended with weights from 451 to 599 pounds. Miss Sadie Clark of New Hampshire opened the event and tipped 510 pounds on the hay scales. A boxing exhibition featured the two heaviest ladies, followed by Moore's New Orleans minstrels and a cake walk in the theater. A vaudeville program showcased Princess Istra Shaik Ismail Tony Walters Ida Campbell Cassie French and more with newer motion pictures.
Enthusiastic audiences filled Scenic Temple for an afternoon and evening program featuring Forrester and Lloyd, Marie Dreams with a strong voice, Mae Howard the comedy juggler, a four performer sketch, and a motion picture showing several films never before shown in Boston.
An old advertisement touts a simple home mixture for weak kidneys and bladder. It prescribes six ounces good water or spirits, half an ounce Murax compound, and half an ounce Buchu fluid extract. Take one to two teaspoonfuls after meals and at night. It claims rapid relief from backache and associated pains.
The Woodsman by Robert Stodart opened at Castle Square with a capable company led by Mr. Craig as the hero. The Maine forest setting frames the romance of Desera Strong and Helen Blake with a villain lurking. Next week Donald Meels returns as George Fisher in Are You a Mason.
The Globe Theatre currently hosts the musical comedy Matt and Jeff with hearty laughter from audiences. The plot is ingeniously arranged, featuring two famous characters in lively flesh and blood. Pretty women, attractive costumes, bright music, and handsome scenery mark this unusual production.
Jack Singer's Painting the Town company brings a new Boston engagement to the Gaiety. Pete Curley and Will Halliday star in a story driven comedy about two Irishmen who desert their wives for a night in Philadelphia. Margaret King Betty Davison and others provide strong support while Schrack and Houten perform acrobatics and Ralph Rockway, Marie Geraldine, Martini and Maximilian present burlesque magic.
Grand Opera House Chester presents Woman Against Woman with De Vonde and Van Auker as principals. Three country girls face city life and a dalliance, leading to serious complications but moral triumph. The production runs one week and is followed by The Two Orphans.
The Bowdoin Square Theatre presented a lively program of vaudeville and moving pictures yesterday. The Heidelberg Four captivated with songs while Whitney's Dancing Dolls offered an operatic sketch. Collins and Cole showcased clever songs and wit alongside Jarms and Lindau rural acts. The McLain sisters impressed with nimble dancing and Christine the ventriloquist with Kirk on xylophone. Mile. Palfreyman the fortune teller remains popular.
The Coronation pictures at Tremont Temple are extended and shown twice daily until further notice. An additional attraction next Saturday will be a lecture by traveler Charles W. Furlong on his visit to Venezuela, the Land of the Orinoco.
The Howard hosts Merry Burlesquers led by Richy Craig and Anna Yale in a lively program. Acts include the Ernesto sisters the Queens of the Silver Thread and a polar mix of dancers singers and gymnasts. Cambridge’s Madison brothers and Winstanleys receive strong applause in a night of vaudeville and merry spectacle.
This week at Loew's Orpheum Theatre showcases Princeton and Yale in a comedy sketch 600 Miles from Broadway with Quigg and Nickerson, Sweeney and Rooney, John Rucker performing the Alabama Blossom, Helen Pingree company in The Girl and the Coach, Mitchell and Wallace songs, Clarence siblings, Australian Nuggets, and the Cassels juggling. Later acts include Paoli Cremonesi and company in Curing a Tenor, the Braminos eccentric musi cal comiques, Four Baldwins instrumentalists, Gramilch and Hall His Affinity, Rouble and Simms drawing and singing, and the Mertels novelty gymnasts.
Elsie Janis staged The Slim Princess at the Colonial Theatre yesterday afternoon raising a substantial gift for the Actors Fund of America. Boston and New England manager Thomas B. Lothian sold tickets at the box office and collected $25 in small change to forward to New York with Miss Janis’s compliments.
Last night at the South End Theatre Alfie Akroyd and Annie Moorcroft the Boston swimmers performed to large audiences. The reception showed their popularity. The rest of the program included Paola Cremonesi and company, the Four Baldwins, Gramlich and Hall, the Mertels, Rouble Sims, Lantry brothers and others. Professional tryouts were introduced with great success.
After months of uncertainty the Taft administration has opened talks with Russia in St Petersburg about passports for American Jews and treaty obligations from 1832. President Taft awaits a report from Ambassador Guild to guide cabinet discussion and possible congressional action. Representatives Sulzer and Garner introduced resolutions to abrogate the 1832 treaty, with hearings to follow.
After Halloween ice cream theft at A H Waitt’s home 22 Newton high school boys were rounded up. Two students chosen by lot delivered a formal apology to Mr Waitt and police dropped the case. Names not released.
The new bridge over the Boston and Maine Fitchburg division at Webster Avenue Somerville opened to traffic yesterday afternoon with vehicular use only. On Saturday electric cars will begin crossing the structure.
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